by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME; pronounced phonetically as “Reemee” with stress on the first syllable) is a corps of the British Army that maintains the equipment that the British Army uses. History Prior to...
by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The Queen’s Royal Hussars (The Queen’s Own and Royal Irish) (QRH) is the senior United Kingdom armoured regiment. It was formed on 1 September 1993 from the amalgamation of the Queen’s Own Hussars and the Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars. The...
by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The Queen’s Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1966 through the amalgamation of the four regiments of the Home Counties Brigade. In turn, the regiment became part of Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment in a further...
by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The King’s Regiment, officially abbreviated as KINGS, was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the King’s Division. It was formed on 1 September 1958 by the amalgamation of the King’s Regiment (Liverpool) which had been raised in...
by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Military, Military, Royal Marines
The Corps of Royal Marines (RM) is the United Kingdom’s amphibious light infantry force, forming part of the Naval Service, along with the Royal Navy.[1] The Royal Marines were formed in 1755 as the Royal Navy’s infantry troops. However, the marines...
by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The Parachute Regiment, colloquially known as the Paras, is an elite airborne infantry regiment of the British Army. The regiment is one of the most elite units in the world.[5] The first battalion is permanently under the command of the Director Special Forces in the...
by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The Queen’s Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons), officially abbreviated “QO HLDRS,” was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Scottish Division. It was in existence from 1961 to 1994. History The regiment was formed on 7 February...
by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The Coldstream Guards (COLDM GDS) is a part of the Guards Division, Foot Guards regiments of the British Army. It is the oldest regiment in the Regular Army in continuous active service, originating in Coldstream, Scotland in 1650 when General George Monck...
by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons) (RHG/D) is a cavalry regiment of the British Army, part of the Household Cavalry. The Colonel-in-Chief is Queen Elizabeth II and the Colonel of the Regiment is Anne, Princess Royal. It is the...
by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The Army Catering Corps (ACC) was a corps of the British Army, responsible for the feeding of all Army units. It was formed in 1941 and amalgamated into the Royal Logistic Corps in 1993. History The Early Years 1941-1953 The Army Catering Corps did not exist as...
by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise’s) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1881 until amalgamation into the Royal Regiment of Scotland on 28 March 2006, from when it became a single battalion in the Royal...
by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1960 by the amalgamation of the 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers and the 12th Royal Lancers. In the later years of its existence the regiment served as a...
by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards (QDG) is a cavalry regiment of the British Army. Nicknamed The Welsh Cavalry, the regiment recruits from Wales and the bordering English counties of Herefordshire, and Shropshire, and is the senior cavalry regiment, and...
by Tony Foran | Jan 8, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The 14th/20th King’s Hussars was a cavalry regiment of the British Army. It was created by the amalgamation of the 14th King’s Hussars and the 20th Hussars in 1922 and, after service in the Second World War, it amalgamated with the Royal Hussars to become...
by Tony Foran | Jan 7, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, usually just known as the Devon and Dorsets, was an infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1958 by the amalgamation of two county regiments, the Devonshire Regiment and the Dorset Regiment. In 2007 it was...
by Tony Foran | Jan 7, 2018 | British Army, British Military, Military
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers is an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Queen’s Division. Currently the regiment has two battalions: the 1st battalion, part of the Regular Army, is an armoured infantry battalion based in Tidworth,...
